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A face in the crowd

22 Thursday Feb 2018

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I try to keep up with various photo challenges and projects to keep the creative juices flowing.  I fall behind and lose track, but thankfully I follow enough other photobloggers that I keep moderately informed.  Thanks to Living the Q Life, I have a photo for the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge.  I’m also cheating and using this as my #365project #photoaday.

I took this along with some other photos at the botanic garden for another photo challenge, but really found the guy looking into my shot a little creepy.  In turn, it fits this challenge perfectly!

For the record, I took exactly one photo today.  Coe, who has slept one full night in the last month, has me completely exhausted.  She slept ALL DAY today.  We, meaning she, are on some new meds that hopefully will allow us to get some rest during normal darkness hours.

variations on a theme

27 Saturday Jan 2018

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I’ve spent a better part of this rainy day playing with photo apps and photos. When going through photos, and not just today, I am reminded that I am drawn to the same subjects again and again.

The wordpress weekly photo challenge for the week is variations on a theme.   With all these similar photos, this seemed a pretty good day to post a collage of some of my recent trees.  Trees are not a new obsession; I’ve been taking pictures like this for years.  I think my mother may still have one of early trees framed in her house.

I love their structure, texture, lines, and the life they emanate.  So often when I look at trees, I see a huge nervous system reaching out for the world.  If you’ve ever seen any of the Body World exhibits you may know what I mean.

I’ve been playing with ProCamera, Marksta, Snapseed, and Adobe Photoexpress today.  I’d love to know what some of your favorite photo apps are and why.

 

structure in snow

17 Wednesday Jan 2018

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Fingers crossed today is the last of the really-really bad weather for us.  It should get above freezing tomorrow and as long as the sun is out, the ice will melt.  We will be left with a muddy, mushy mess, but there is always a price for beauty.

My internet wanderings the last few days, have found another photo challenge for me to follow.  The theme for this week is structure in nature.

The structure in the snow and ice crystals that formed in a footprint are quite amazing. There is so much to see when you stop and take in the world around you.

I love the lines of the lines of the trees both up, out, and toward me in the snow.

The structure of the day into the night is an important ritual for us. It is so often overlooked because of its repetitiveness. It is one of my favorite parts of the day.

 

Weathered

12 Friday Jan 2018

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This week’s WP weekly photo challenge is weathered. Memphis got a snow day so I didn’t get out. I enjoyed most of the day curled up with Ginger Kitty. Coe and I got out for a nice walk in the snow so most of the photos I took are just weather.

Ginger has a chair that she lives on during the warmer months and it has weathered beautifully. It’s even pretty all covered in snow.  I put the pink ribbons on it so no humans would think they can sit in this chair.

I threw a couple snow day photos in with the chair so you’d see she is a fair weather chair friend.

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Growth is good

06 Saturday Jan 2018

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This weeks photo challenge is to document growth. Personal growth, new plant growth, overgrowth… How to show growth when we are in an arctic freeze?!. Spring most often brings new plant growth. At the new year we do a lot of personal growth, or at least we say we are. Here’s to growing my bank account and not my waistline. May my plants grow to be fruitful and abundant.

I had lunch with some friends and the plant on the counter was so happy with it’s shiny new leaves.  The cherry blossoms and the tree are from an earlier spring.

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I heart winter

05 Friday Jan 2018

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I really do love winter, but I am over- so over– this bitter freeze.  This afternoon it got up to 40 and you’d think it were spring.  People were wearing shorts and the park was full.  There was still ice everywhere.  I even saw a guy ice skating.  This is not normal for this part of the country.

Coe and I got out for a nice walk and I snapped off a few fun shots.  While some other dogs were willing to checkout the new solid ponds, she was having none of that.

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Early-early morning

03 Wednesday Jan 2018

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I’m not very good at being a sweet caregiver. Thus, I posted a picture of my mother with a bag of frozen peas on her nose. Coe is aging and I’m having trouble being as understanding and sympathetic as needed at times. Especially when she makes me get up at 4AM.

The upside to going for a walk at that ridiculous hour is I get to see some pretty cool stuff I’d otherwise sleep through.

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Life in black-and-white

01 Wednesday Nov 2017

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There’s a challenge going on all over the Internet, people challenge each other to take a black-and-white photo representing life for seven days. No people and no explanation. My friend Grace challenged me and I was so excited. I love taking pictures and looking at life through a camera lens.

Taking photos in black-and-white forces you to look at shadows and light a little differently than you normally would. It makes you look a little deeper.

 

Back in high school I loved playing in the darkroom and loved what I could do in black-and-white. These days since my primary camera is my phone I rarely do anything intentionally in B&W. I’ve been playing with the filters on my iPhone camera and with Hipstamatic and have figured out my phone can do so much more than I knew.

I am going to try and keep this up for a bit. For the first few days I challenged a couple friends, but today I’m challenging you. And by you, I mean all of you. Let’s see what you can do. What does your life look like in black-and-white?  Don’t make me call you out.  Post it in the comments section if you want.

If you need some motivation or ideas there are all sorts of photo challenges floating around but here’s a few I have followed.

The WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is one I’ve done for years, but have fallen away from lately.

Cee’s Photography always has a challenge going.

There’s always the self-motivated Project 365 or post-a-day…

finding life’s texture…

07 Monday Aug 2017

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I haven’t been writing much lately… Well, I have been writing, but nothing has made it to far as hitting submit. Most things I’ve written lately haven’t even gotten far as going back to proofread. I’ve written a lot of random ideas as they pop in my head, half thoughts, and nonsense.

I’m really trying to find some inspiration to get me to write again. Even the photo challenges lately have not been inspiring. I also think the summer heat has sapped my energy and my creativity.

One of the things that occurred to me recently is that in Portland I was in contact with all types of people during my day. It was on public transit, walks in downtown during lunch, or at the distillery on the weekends. I don’t have that kind of interaction with people here. Additionally, the type of people I’m interacting with are less varied.

Back in the spring I went to Buenos Aires and found the energy of the city so inspiring and stimulating. Almost immediately upon return to Memphis that energy was used up to maintain my sanity, peace, and equilibrium. I have known for some time that Memphis is not the city for me, but Buenos Aires confirmed that.

So, trying to get back into the swing of writing and creative endeavors, this week’s photo challenge is texture.  This tree has been speaking to me for a while.  Does it say anything special to you?